Facts and Figures (will be shortly updated for 2012-2013)

Philosophy is one of the few programmes offered completely in English at the KU Leuven.

Teaching

• All classes are taught by professors; a few seminars are taught by teaching assistants.

Students (2010-2011)

• 680 students (in total)
• 230 registered in the English language philosophy programmes
• 45 different nationalities

Staff

• 31 professors
• 99 researchers
• 13 administrative and technical staff

Doctoral Studies

• 104 doctoral students, 66 of them international students
• 15 doctoral defences in 2009-2010 academic year, 11 of them by international students

Publications

• 60 publications per year in international peer-reviewed scholarly journals
• The Institute's philosophy journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
• The world's most complete index in Philosophy: the International Philosophical Bibliography

Library

• a collection of 100,000 volumes
• subscriptions to 400 journals
• noted for the Husserl-Archives: 40,000 pages of manuscripts, most of Husserl's extensive correspondence, many documents about his life and university career, as well as lecture and seminar notes made by his students.

Internationally renowned philosophers who have lectured at the Institute

• in the 1950s: E. Gilson, J. Lacan, P. Ricoeur
• in the 1960s: E. Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, J. Patocka, P. Ricoeur, J. Vuillemin
• in the 1970s: J. Derrida, E. Fink, C. Harsthorne, E. Levinas, K. Popper, J. Searle, P.F. Strawson, J. Sneed
• in the 1980s: J. Derrida, U. Eco, E. Levinas, R. Scruton, J. Searle, J. Haldane, L. Apostel, M. Wartofsky
• in the 1990s: D. Davidson, S. Cavell, J. Lyotard, M. Nussbaum, R. Rorty, B. Williams, M. Walzer, E. McMullin, H. Putnam, T. Sebeok
• in recent years: I. Hacking, M. Walzer, J. Milbank, J. McDowell, Q. Skinner, D. Cuppit, J. Levinson, R. Scruton, L. Dupré, B van Fraassen, L. Irigaray, C. Korsgaard